In the deadliest attack, three soldiers were killed and two others wounded by a roadside bomb targeting an army patrol in the town of Jalawla, in restive Diyala province north of the capital, according to an official in the provincial security command centre.
Three policemen were also wounded by another roadside bomb attack just north of Diyala`s capital Baquba, added the official, who did not want to be named.
In the ethnically-mixed, oil-rich city of Kirkuk in north Iraq, Qassim Mohammed, a Shiite Turkman businessman, was killed by a magnetic "sticky bomb" attached to his car, according to police Lieutenant Colonel Shakhawan Abdullah.
The 46-year-old`s wife was also wounded in the attack, Abdullah said.
And in Baghdad, an Iraqi army colonel was killed by another sticky bomb in the western neighbourhood of Al-Amriyah, an interior ministry official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Gunmen in the capital, meanwhile, shot dead the owner of a shop in Zafraniyah, in the south of the city, the official said.
Violence is down across Iraq from its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks remain common. A total of 259 people were killed in violence in Iraq in July, according to official figures, the second-highest figure in 2011. (*)
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